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Team News Wigan boss Roberto Martinez again faces an injury headache for Saturday's early Premier League game with Arsenal at the DW Stadium.

He will definitely be without four players after defender Adrian Lopez joined Ben Watson, Ryo Miyaichi and Albert Crusat on the long-term injury list.

Another four players should feature over the festive period, with captain Gary Caldwell the most likely to make it for Arsenal ahead of fellow centre-backs Ivan Ramis, Antolin Alcarazand midfielder James McCarthy.

Arsenal report no fresh injury problems ahead of tomorrow's Barclays Premier League game at Wigan.

England forward Theo Walcott could again be preferred in a central striker's role ahead of Olivier Giroud after scoring in the 5-2 win at Reading.

Match NotesFor all the claims of a crisis at Arsenal, Arsène Wenger’s players could climb above Chelsea into third place on Saturday if all their rivals’ results fall in their favour.

It will be intriguing to see whether Theo Walcott, reinvigorated on the pitch despite his tortuous contract talks away from it, will start as centre-forward after his impressive performance at Reading.

Fortified by the creativity of Santi Cazorla, Arsenal should have more than enough weapons to unpick a Wigan defence that has conceded at least two goals in each of the club’s last seven league matches.

Stat of the game: Arsenal’s 27-point haul is five fewer than they had at this stage of last season.